Les Portes claquent (1960)
Directed by Michel Fermaud, Jacques Poitrenaud

Comedy
aka: The Door Slams

Film Synopsis

André Costais and his wife are a respectable middle class couple who struggle in vain to impose their bourgeois standards on their children.  Do they even known what their precocious offspring get up to when their watchful gaze is averted?   One daughter is a cover girl, the other is so well acquainted with the facts of life that she is now pregnant, and their son is given to flings of debauchery, when he isn't threatening to blow the house up with his chemistry set...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Michel Fermaud, Jacques Poitrenaud
  • Script: Francis Cosne, Jean Ferry, Jacques Poitrenaud, Michel Fermaud (play)
  • Cinematographer: Jacques Poitrenaud
  • Music: Michel Legrand
  • Cast: Catherine Deneuve (Dany), Hélène Dieudonné (La grand-mère), Françoise Dorléac (Dominique), Jacqueline Maillan (Alice Costier), Noël Roquevert (André Costier), Michael Lonsdale, Picolette, Maurice Sarfati, Dany Saval
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Black and White
  • Runtime: 90 min
  • Aka: The Door Slams

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